Michelle Willard, The Murfreesboro Post, November 13, 2011 If there’s one thing organizers of Murfreesboro’s Bicentennial Celebration want the public to remember, it’s the importance of history. This month’s schedule includes three events that mark the beginnings of three important aspects of Murfreesboro’s history – its first black church, the founding…
Jonathon Fagan, The Murfreesboro Post, November 10, 2011 A pair of local authors is giving readers the chance to see Tennessee as travelers saw it in the early 20th century. Most drivers traveling through Murfreesboro in the ‘30s and ‘40s simply saw just another small town along the Dixie Highway,…
The Murfreesboro Post, November 3, 2011 City TV continues its Bicentennial Series, Murfreesboro Storytellers, with the November program featuring the theme, “Our Beginnings.” Guests for the month are members of three long time Rutherford county families. The first airing will be Monday, Nov. 7. They are Murfreesboro businessman and Rutherford…
Michelle Willard, The Murfreesboro Post, October 23, 2011 Six years later, Murfreesboro is home again to the World’s Largest Cedar Bucket. Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, the rebuilt “New World’s Largest Cedar Bucket” was unveiled Saturday at the 35th annual Harvest Days Festival in Cannonsburgh Pioneer Village. After…
Dan Whittle, September 25, 2011, The Murfreesboro Post At old Sewart Air Force Base SMYRNA – History lives here. And living history unfurled with a dramatic military aircraft fly-over for the rededication of a huge monument that marked a milestone day from the old Sewart Air Force Base-era from 1942…
The Murfreesboro Post, September 7, 2011 The Sam Davis Home Quilt Show will be open to the public from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 15-17 and from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept 18 for its annual Quilt Show. Pre-sale tickets are $6, or $8 at the door. Tickets to the Quilt…
The Murfreesboro Post, September 2, 2011 Rutherford County Historical Society President Greg Tucker will speak to the Club Tuesday. Rutherford County Historical Society President Greg Tucker will speak to the Club Tuesday, Sept. 6, Exchange Club President Jeff Stroop announced. Tucker is also a weekly columnist for the Daily News…
Michelle Willard, The Murfreesboro Post, August 28, 2011 When college sweethearts Sarah and Ed Barlow were students at MTSU in the late ’50s, signing up for classes wasn’t as easy as logging onto a computer. “When we registered for classes, they would set up tables in the Tennessee Room of…
Thanks to the generosity of the heirs of late author and Murfreesboro historian C.B. Arnette, the Rutherford County Historical Society has a new home. Cheryl Arnette Sommardahl, C.B.’s daughter, handed the keys to the refurbished Ransom School to members of the Rutherford County Historical Society at the structure on Academy…
Gina Logue, Murfreesboro Post, August 14, 2011 In a society where billboards blanketed the landscape long before the creation of the interstate highway system, it seems counterintuitive to suggest that signage could be a positive, attractive addition to a city or county. The interpretive signs added to specific points in…